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A sign for Eli Lilly & Co. sits outside their corporate headquarters in Indianapolis on April 26, 2017. New research shows another experimental Alzheimer's drug can modestly slow patients' inevitable worsening. Patients given monthly infusions of Eli Lilly and Co.'s donanemab declined about four to seven months more slowly than those given dummy infusions in a large study. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, File)

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Soaring sales of diabetes drug Mounjaro, widely used for weight loss, sends Eli Lilly to new heights
By TOM MURPHY - AP Health Writer
Tue,08/08/23-9:06AM , 303 Reads
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Eli Lilly’s diabetes treatment Mounjaro, which is widely used for weight loss, raked in nearly $1 billion in second-quarter sales, or more than $200 million above what Wall Street had expected.
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A page from Amazon's clinic site is shown on a laptop in New York on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. Amazon is adding video telemedicine visits in all 50 states to the virtual clinic it launched last fall, as the e-commerce giant pushes deeper into care delivery. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

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Amazon adds video telemedicine visits nationwide to its virtual clinic
By TOM MURPHY - AP Health Writer
Tue,08/01/23-7:03AM , 250 Reads
Amazon is adding video telemedicine visits in all 50 states to a virtual clinic it launched last fall, as the e-commerce giant pushes deeper into care delivery.
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Debris is scattered around the Pfizer facility on Wednesday, July 19, 2023, in Rocky Mount, N.C., after damage from severe weather. (Travis Long/The News & Observer via AP)

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Tornado damage to Pfizer plant will probably create long-term shortages of some drugs hospitals need
By TOM MURPHY - AP Health Writer
Thu,07/20/23-11:40AM , 267 Reads
The fallout from a Pfizer factory being damaged by a tornado could put even more pressure on already-strained drug supplies at U.S. hospitals, experts say.
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Medical charges sent to David White, who after kidney surgery got hit with a lot of extra charges, are seen at his home in Temple Hills, Md., Monday, June 26, 2023. A startling invoice that arrived in the mail may not be what you wind up paying. Errors or slow insurance payments may have inflated the total. Even if it’s accurate, financial aid or other assistance might help pare it. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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Are you confronting a big medical bill? Attack it with a plan — and these tips
By TOM MURPHY - AP Health Writer
Fri,06/30/23-1:59PM , 317 Reads
An enormous medical bill can trigger a wave of panic, but try to resist.

That startling invoice that arrived in the mail may not be what you wind up paying. Errors or slow insurance payments may have inflated the total. Even if it’s accurate, financial aid or other assistance might help pare it.
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